mayor castro sits on the board of the city's public utility, cps, and along with the rest of the board, voted to okay the contract with oci. on october 10th of last year, three months before the deal was announced, castro traveled to south korea with a trade delegation from san antonio. on october 12th, he cut his trip short and flew to washington to attend a state dinner at the white house in honor of south korean's president. castro had a seat at the head table with presidents obama and tableesenbuwe sidents obama and bidding on this that were competitive. ultimately it just came down to oci solar put together a better package. >> reporter: oci declined our request for an interview since they won the san antonio contract, they have launched several other solar projects. as for the fact that san antonio residents will be sending hundreds of millions of american dollars to korea for energy over the next 25 years -- >> i honestly don't think we looked at it that way. we looked at it as bringing jobs to san antonio and as far as we're concerned, those are american jobs, and frankly, the